I agree that from a power stanpoint, yes they have no power. But I beleive as a mass populous control mechanism they do serve a legitimate purpose. As they act as a collective, they can impose law across religous and cultrural lines without masses of people revolting. Normally the UN has worked fairly well in the past about keeping the peace in the most volatile places on the planet. Africa and the Middle East have always had conflict but think of how many things they have diffused. Something needs to happen now in terms of how they do their business now because they have seemed to lost some of the control that they once had. I think that Bush knows alot more than we give him credit for.
Im not this extreme, but thats alot of how I feel as well. They say history repeats itself. After this we are going to go into another post WWI containment policy and secure our borders 100% to outside influx and sit back and watch the world go to shit. And then when it finally gets so out of control that North Korea/Unorthodox warfare reaches our borders and we will have to do something. Either way at some point we have to make a choice as to how much shit we are going to take for trying to support the world.
Real sorry about that man. I excpect this thread is going to leave a lasting impression on VS long after you leave. ........\ Surely there are enough resources here to get that thing done before you leave.
I think if you hang around people like that then you are taking the initial chance. If you dont want the possibility of getting in trouble dont associate yourself with people who may bring that kind of attention to themselves and the people around them.
Commit a crime and get whats coming to you. I dont understand the argument that they should be treated nicely when they cant do that same in civil society.
How do you know this? Fight it but i dont think it will matter. Regardless of if you are used to the speed or not that isnt something a judge is going to consider as a viable reason for speeding. Thats like someone that just got a ferrari saying they arent used to the speed so that why they were doing 160 in a 70.